Track 
Osaghae takes third in hurdles at NCAA indoor championships(1)
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Two years in a row, Omo Osaghae has brought his best performance to the NCAA indoor track and field championships, setting personal and school records in the men’s 60-meter hurdles final.
His best remains just short of what he needs to be a national champion.
The Texas Tech senior from Monterey ran a time [...]
Tech women’s relay, Lamb earn all-America honors at NCAA indoor
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Texas Tech broke a school record in the women’s distance medley relay twice this track season.
The second time was Friday, which was perfect timing.
The quartet of Purity Biwott, Trudeann Clarke, Gladys Kipsang and Caroline Karunde closed the first day of the NCAA indoor championships with a fifth-place finish, which earned them [...]
Top five is Tech men’s goal at NCAA indoor meet
Two weeks ago at the Big 12 Conference indoor track and field meet, it was the women who primarily carried the banner for Texas Tech, finishing second for the second year in a row.
This weekend at the NCAA indoor championships, the Tech men are better positioned to shine. The Red Raiders have athletes ranked in [...]
Tech women take second in Big 12 Indoors
Before the Big 12 Conference indoor track and field championships, Texas Tech coach Wes Kittley projected the Texas A&M women to score 135 points and his own team to tally 110.
He wasn’t far off.
When the two-day meet concluded Saturday in Ames, Iowa, the Tech women had piled up 115 points and finished second, just as [...]
Tech freshman prodigies win first Big 12 track titles
Texas Tech senior Darrell Roddick predicted this week that his freshman teammate, Bryce Lamb, had “a real shot’’ of being the Big 12 Conference champion in the long jump and had “an even better chance of winning the triple jump if he doesn’t know it yet.’’
Boy, was Roddick right on the first count. Was he [...]
Tech’s Lamb conquers nerves; Can he conquer Big 12?
There’s a videotape Bryce Lamb would prefer you not see of him at his most vulnerable. It’s his first time on the runway as a college athlete trying the triple jump as a Texas Tech freshman.
Heart pounding, mind racing, unable to breathe, he scratches on the attempt.
“I don’t even have it on my record — [...]
Tech sports roundup: Tech’s Roddick garners berth to NCAA indoors
COLLEGE STATION — Texas Tech senior Darrell Roddick earned an automatic berth in the NCAA indoor championships, winning the triple jump at the Texas A&M Challenge with a personal record of 53 feet, 53/4 inches Saturday.
Roddick joins teammates Bryce Lamb (men’s triple jump) and Shade Weygandt (women’s pole vault) as automatic qualifiers to the NCAA [...]
Three-league challenge awaits Tech
Texas Tech track coach Wes Kittley thinks it’s a neat idea to have three programs apiece from the Big 12, the Southeastern Conference and Conference USA competing this weekend at the Texas A&M Challenge in College Station.
Conference pride, though, can’t obscure the main purpose of the trip.
“Still to me, at this point of the year, [...]
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